Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce GTX 965M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1650MHz vs 1150MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+7%
2534
GeForce GTX 965M
2355
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jan 2016
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
935 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1150 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
768
Shading Units
1024
48
TMUs
64
24
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.80 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
73.60 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.355 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GM206S
-
GPU Variant
N16E-GR-A1
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
2.94 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
